Suspense/Thriller

National security missions requiring stealth, speed and direct action bring Stony Man into play. With a mandate to get the job done, this seasoned strike force is backed by a brilliant cybernetics team equipped to take real-time intelligence to the battlefield. At presidential command, Stony Man is armed and ready to fight back against tyranny and terror.An international crime ring rooted in China's underbelly is distributing raw materials for weapons of mass destruction. To halt the pipeline's ... more info>>

Author Karen Wiesner returns with her EPPIE AWARD winning romantic suspense INCOGNITO SERIES with book five, UNDER THE SPELL. Alex Lynch has spent a lifetime working hard toward the goal of owning the Triple Aces Ranch in Fever, Texas. His dream has finally come true when Gina Calhoun--a girl he'd loved all his life, despite her penchant for looking for trouble and his penchant for bailing her out--drops back into his life, seemingly out of nowhere. Network Communications and Systems Analyst Jus... more info>>

When a situation calls for an immediate response and an enemy must be found and neutralized, a team of special operators under presidential directive moves in. Stony Man cyber specialists stay close to ground events in real time, while direct action units engage the combatants with precision and lethal force.Two red-hot situations a world apart put the Stony Man strike teams on separate hunter-killer operations in unstable regions. In the urban hellgrounds of Domincan Republic, Able Team follows... more info>>

Strong-minded Gavin Thomas was determined to have his own way and to find out the truth about beautiful and beguiling Tara Delaney. When Tara literally fainted in Gavin's arms, he felt as if a lightning bolt had just hit him. He'd finally found the woman he'd spent a lifetime looking for.
But something had kept Tara away from Whiskey River. While Gavin wanted to seduce this fiery woman, he needed to discover what secret kept them apart...except he had no idea exactly how bewitching Tara reall... more info>>

Network operatives Kirsten Ulrick and Ash Barnett have sacrificed their personal identities to live in the shadows and uphold justice for all--no matter the cost. Captain Shannon McKee has restored order to the Network, a covert government agency. However, corrupt former Head of Operations, Giles Jameson is MIA, intent on destroying the reporters who uncovered his corruption. Operatives Kirsten Ulrick and Ash Barnett go undercover to protect Raven Harris and her husband from their seemingly invi... more info>>

SHE KEPT HER SECRETS BEHIND THE VELVET ROPE.... As the owner of one of the hottest nightclubs in New York City, Tessa Van Doren was a target for rumors. Some said she worked with the mob, while others claimed she drove men to suicide. Tessa let them speculate--because the truth was much darker.... Besides, Tessa had her hands full with her own cause: taking down the criminals circulating a deadly new designer drug. The stubborn detective dogging her every move might be just what Tessa needed to ... more info>>

Three strangers each encounter the same mysterious storm and awake the next day to find that everyone else has vanished. There's Conner Hayden, a successful but unscrupulous trial lawyer who has forsaken his family for his career; Helen Krause, a middle-aged model struggling to come to grips with her fading beauty; and Mitch Kent, an enterprising young mechanic unable to escape a past that still haunts him. Afraid and desperate for answers, their paths eventually cross and they discover they are... more info>>

Staring at the obituary, ex-MI-6 agent Nadia Bishop knew it was time to come out of hiding. Because not only did the woman look *exactly* like Nadia, she'd been murdered in the same town from which Nadia had fled a heartbreaking and dangerous affair two years ago. It couldn't be coincidence. Going back would bring Nadia face-to-face with her mesmerizing ex-lover. It would thrust her into the vengeful path of his ruthless family. Those she could handle. But Nadia would also uncover a legacy so po... more info>>

The body of Bernice Hogan, a troubled young former nursing student with a tragic past, is found in a shallow grave near a forest creek. Jolene Peller, a single mom struggling to build a new life with her little boy, vanishes the night she tries to find Bernice. Hero cop Karl Styebeck is beloved by his community, but privately police are uneasy with the answers he gives to protect the life--and the lie--he's lived. The case haunts Jack Gannon, a gritty, blue-collar reporter whose own sister ran ... more info>>

When the prey turns out to be as dangerous as the hunterâ?¦ The most vicious cartel in Mexico has done as it pleases for years, but when one of its leaders sets up a new drug lab in western Montana, things don't go as planned. A sixteen-year-old boy discovers they've murdered his father and sets out to prevent the killers from escaping, but things don't go as he planned either. Now, the boy's only hope for survival rests with a special 'gift' he was born with and an estranged uncle with demons o... more info>>

The hunt for a killer on a rampage of revenge in upstate New York leads Mack Bolan to a nest of criminals. A vigilante is targeting local meth-lab gangs doing business with white supremacists. But innocents are dying in the wake of one man's killing spree. That places him squarely in Bolan's gun sights. Trailing his quarry through chaos and death, Bolan exposes a new and far grimmer scenario--a conspiracy involving local powerbrokers. The goal is an act of home-grown terror orchestrated by rogue... more info>>

Sander (Sandy) Pinard is caught-up in a crunch between information technology and the highest levels of covert operations, political ambition and corporate greed. As an integral member of a clandestine communications sub-culture of the intelligence community, Pinard is teamed with Gloria Kelly in making the final connections to an ultra-secret ultraviolet satellite network that, when operational, will hand the most powerful in the nation, absolute power. But Pinard cannot do it without using and... more info>>

Terminal Velocity.... Mack Bolan undertakes a rapid-deployment rescue operation in West Africa, where a C.I.A. asset possessing crucial U.S. intelligence is trapped and dying. For years, the agent has played the counterintelligence game for profit. Now, holed up in a grimy hotel in the middle of a bloodbath, her last hope is making his way to her across the civil war-torn Ivory Coast. Bolan's point of insertion is the center of hell, where monsoon rains and wholesale slaughter conspire to shorte... more info>>

The intriguing title Von Ryan's Express hints at the fascinating situation that unfolds within its pages. Set in an Italian POW camp at the height of World War II, it has a hero who acts like a villain for much of the story, an arrogant, by-theBook American colonel who manages to save the men in his charge after very nearly assuring their doom. David Westheimer's novel captures the gritty oblivion of POW life, while the suspense builds as the prisoners plot their way to freedom. Shot down over I... more info>>

America's gay Indiana Jones is back in a thrilling new adventure. In post WWII Europe, gay spies, Kydon Schmidt and Robin Wyngate, track missing dead men in Italy. Are they vampires, the un-dead, or fleeing Nazi war criminals?

The war to pull Earth and humanity back from the iron grip of slavery shifts against an inhuman enemy both calculating and unpredictable. For those with the knowledge and will to reclaim their planet, a blueprint for survival has emerged: to challenge the future, they must reckon with the chilling and immutable past. Several baronies have disappeared, as if swallowed by the earth. Strange disturbances lead Kane and the others to a giant sinkhole in a remote and wild area of Mexico, where realit... more info>>

A priceless artifact could restore a family's honor--or destroy everything in its wake. While vacationing in Tokyo, archaeologist Annja Creed is approached by a man who desperately needs her help. Kennichi Ogawa, the last descendant of an ancient warrior family, is trying to locate a stolen artifact. Legend has it that the vajra was mystically endowed by a warrior's spirit to help the Yumegakure-ryu family forever be a source for good. But the vajra could help the forces of evil if it gets into... more info>>

What would you do if you lost everything you had ever loved? In this mesmerizing story of love and loss, Sarah Martin's idyllic world is shattered when the death of her father sets into motion a series of terrible life-changing events. While fighting to save her father's bookstore from bankruptcy, Sarah discovers family secrets that tear her and her husband Michael's lives apart. Meanwhile Gamaliel, Sarah's guardian angel, is fighting his own agonizing battles. A broken angel whose last mission ... more info>>

Marcia wanders the streets of Cracow, Poland searching for the man she once intended to marry ... She's unaware that her every move is being watched. Is Lazarz still alive? Which side did he spy for? Marcia refuses to give up searching for some kind of closure and finds more than she bargained for.

In her showdown with the murderous Pretender, a bullet taken at close range severed the connection between Taylor's thoughts and speech. Effectively mute, there's no telling if her voice will ever come back. Trapped in silence, she is surrounded by ghosts-of the past, of friendships and trusts lost...of a lost faith in herself and her motives that night.When Memphis Highsmythe offers Taylor his home in the Scottish Highlands to recuperate, her fiance can't refuse her excitement, no matter his di... more info>>

In this sequel to Murder on Margin, Mike Wolf takes on his first murder investigation as a private detective, one that leads him and Tracy into a puzzling mystery of cold case arson, blackmail, the underground pornography industry, and multiple murders. It proves that Mike's old friend George's advice of "in a murder case, one is seldom who or what they say they are, when all else fails, follow the money." Where Roses Bloom will have you on your toes trying to guess what will happen next?

Maris Rhodes would tell you that a Ph.D. in Classics is okay ... if you're into dead Greek philosophers. But a dead drug dealer, a sexy amnesiac, a federal agent gone bad, and a trip to Mexico are a lot more exciting. That is until the long arm of the law reaches out for her, and the man she's been protecting reaches for a gun. When the good guys are bad, the bad guys are good, and the passion is, well, even better, what's a woman to do?

If there were a God, he would have stopped me.That's the message discovered atop an elementary school in downtown Atlanta. Across the street are the bodies of fourteen people, each quickly and cleanly murdered. The sniper Galileo is on the loose. He can end a life from hundreds of yards away. And he is just getting started.Where others see puzzles, Esme Stuart sees patterns. These outside-the-box inductive skills made her one of the FBI's top field operatives. But she turned her back on all that... more info>>

Intelligence has Mustafa Barenji, an elusive terrorist, intent on causing destruction in the United States. Only an ex-Mossad agent has ever seen Barenji and lived and Zephyr is now retired and hates all clandestine services. Richard Royer, violinist and composer, is mistakenly identified as Zephyr. His wife, Rachel, is kidnapped to assure Royer's cooperation. But Richard has his own problems. Only a lot of luck or the real Zephyr can prevent global catastrophe. From Seattle to Zimbabwe, Frankfo... more info>>

On a casual errand, a woman is forced to fight for her life when she is attacked by a group of relentless and evil strangers. Going beyond the pale, Ed Bryant's short story is a gripping and fast paced thriller that is sure to make you think twice about your next trip to the mall. This is the short story that is the basis for the 2008 film starring Kim Basinger and Lukas Haas.